America has LIED to its Military

Published on April 25, 2007 By COL Gene In Politics

I served 30 years as a member of first the Regular Army and then the Army Reserve. I met some of the most dedicated people in my life in the military. Almost to a person they accepted the tasks given them even when those tasks caused great hardship to them and their families. From everything I have read and scene on TV today, our military has never been more committed to protecting our great country.

That is what makes what we have done to them so hard to accept. We sent them into combat believing that their sacrifice was to:

Protect us from what they were told was a danger to our homeland from Iraq.

They were told their service in fighting the Iraq War would make America safer.

We told them we would take care of them if they were injured.

The horrible truth is we LIED. Anyone that supports Bush and Cheney has lied to them just like our two top leaders have done. Saddam was no danger to America and Bush had the intelligence and Pentagon estimate that showed he WAS NO DANGER to our country in 2002. The bottom line is that after over four years of fighting the efforts of our military has not made America safer but less safe. That is not because they did not perform admirably but because the mission they were sent on by Bush was one that was WRONG from the beginning and Bush was warned that attacking Iraq would create the horrible situation we see today. Bush failed to listen to the military planners as to the troop levels needed to secure Iraq and most of our dead and wounded are because Bush did not send the required manpower to secure Iraq and prevent the needless bloodshed we see every day in that Hell Hole! When our wounded return we fail to provide decent medical facilities like we say at Walter Reed and a VA system that is NOT capable of providing the long term services needed by our veterans.

George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have a lot on nerve appearing before the brave members of our military after the way they LIED to them as to WHY we attacked Iraq. They should be ashamed after the way they BOTH failed to serve their country during Vietnam.

Comments (Page 9)

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COL Gene

on May 07, 2007

and col gene what about that redistribution of wealth you know the 300,000 I answered that question on another post.

I have completed about 1/2 of the Book by Tenet. There is NO DOUBT, Bush and Cheney LIED about Saddam. It is not just the fact that the claim they made about WMD especially the nuclear weapons were NOT supported by the Intelligence. It is that there was so much data and so many warnings that we were about to be attacked by bin laden. There was NOTHING before or after 9/11 that showed we were in danger from Saddam. The CIA advised Bush that Saddam would only use any WMD he did have against an invading force. They said there was NO evidence of his ability or intent to use any WMD against others countries including Israel. The case Bush and Cheney made that Saddam was a danger to the United States was NOT from the intelligence. That comes through very clearly in Tenet's book. We were LIED to by our two top leaders and taken into a war that should NEVER have happened! Now there is top British Diplomat that said his government did the very same thing as Bush—they LIED about the danger from Saddam and he flatly said British intelligence DID NOT support the claims that the Prime Minister said about the danger from Saddam.

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Paladin77

on May 08, 2007

The CIA advised Bush that Saddam would only use any WMD he did have against an invading force.

Based on your lies then we would have been attacked with WMD because we invaded Iraq. Instead we find that, according to you, there were not WMD's at all. Funny how they all disappeared. We knew they had them, Saddam admitted he had them and the quantities we used were based off of what Saddam said he had and what the UN said they destroyed. The difference is what he still had and what we could not find. Where did it all go?

Fact: Saddam publicaly stated that he would sell or give what WMD he had to terrorist to use on Isreal and the U.S. That my poorly educated supposed col is a threat. He does not have to do the act, or even have the ability to do the act. The threat is saying he would do the act. Actually doing the act is not a threat it is an attack. I am sure that war college would have covered that minor fact. Were you awake during that class?

Now there is top British Diplomat that said his government did the very same thing as Bush—they LIED about the danger from Saddam and he flatly said British intelligence DID NOT support the claims that the Prime Minister said about the danger from Saddam.

You say you have read half the book so far, yet if anyone watched the interview on Fox News Channel he was asked directly if the President lied and the answer was no. Why would he contradict what was in his book? Or are you making leaps of logic to come to your conclusions again? What makes what you write so hard to believe is the fact that Mr. Tenet was an appointee of Mr. Clinton, and Mr. Tenet has stated publicly that he gave the same talks about Bin laden to both presidents only one was doing something about him.

The lie from that Brit has been proven wrong several times plus a full investigation was completed and no evidence was found to even hint that what he said was correct. Oh yeah, and that Brit was found to have been taking money from Saddam prior to the run up to the war. Funny how all the people you bring up have received bribe money from Saddam.

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